It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
Lin YutangThere is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.
Lin YutangNo one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Lin YutangIn fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.
Lin Yutang